Edna Lewis Quotes
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.
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Eureka! Eureka! Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.
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I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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We have three sessions to bat tomorrow and we need to take the game deep into the fifth day.
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I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
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No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Power is the ability to afford not to learn.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.
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This is a bittersweet day for me, ... I would have liked my Republican Party to be in the forefront of this issue.
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My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.
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Professional Southerners sicken me.
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If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.
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Southerners tax themselves less and make up for the shortfall by snaking a disproportionate amount of federal tax dollars from states outside their region.
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Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for.
